Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper analyzes, using country-level panel data from transition economies and Latin America, the impact of labor … (transition countries) and the World Bank (LAC countries). We find that a more regulated labor market (higher EPL) increases the … with the literature, which identifies labor market regulation and the tax wedge as important drivers of informality. …